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Definition: Arrears |
ArrearsNoun1. The state of being behind in payments; "an account in arrears". 2. An unpaid overdue debt. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "arrears" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Business | In accounting and finance, the term for amounts which are due and not get paid at the date fixed for payment. . . . Similarly, a bond or preferred stock on which interest or dividends due have not been p aid. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | (1) the state of a debt that remains unpaid following the date of maturity. The term is commonly used in connection with mortgages, installment payments and other obligations that are due and payable on specified dates. (2) the money that is past due but unpaid. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Debt | Arrears, deferred payment, deficit, default, insolvency; (nonpayment); bad debt. |
Nonpayment | Adjective: not paying, non-paying, non-performing; in debt; behindhand, in arrear, behind in payments, in arrears; beggared; (poor); unable to make both ends meet, minus; worse than nothing; worthless. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Arrears |
| English words defined with "arrears": Arrear, Arrearage ♦ behind, behindhand ♦ in arrears ♦ Rent arrear. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "arrears": charge-account identification clerk, criticized assets ♦ forced sale of collaterals ♦ THROW-OUT CLERK. (references) |
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Business | Higher oil export revenues in 1996-97 enabled the Saudi Government to settle its domestic debt and largely pay the arrears of contractors and government suppliers, as well as reduce its budget deficit. (references) | |
The share of arrears in the loan portfolio (6.4 percent in 1998 and 6.0 percent in 1997) was significantly higher than in the U.S. (2.3 percent), Chile (2.5 percent) and Spain (3.1 percent) in 1997 (the last year for which data was provided). (references) | ||
Children | Georgia | The staff was paid poorly, and wages were many months in arrears. (references) |
Central African Republic | The failure of the education system, caused by a meager budget and salary arrears, has resulted in a shortage of teachers and an increase in street children. (references) | |
Turkmenistan | Wages for teachers and administrators are in arrears in many districts; this, coupled with the fact that salaries are low, has caused some teachers to leave the field and seek jobs in the private sector, increasing the ratio of pupils to teachers. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Liberia | All reopened by year's end after paying their tax arrears. (references) |
Gambia | Gaye was arrested for allegedly owing tax arrears of approximately $5,470 (93,000 dalasi). (references) | |
Cameroon | In June 2000, the Government again sealed the paper's offices, claiming that arrears had jumped to $57,000 (40 million CFA francs). (references) | |
Economic History | South Africa | It is also in arrears to the World Bank since May 2000. (references) |
Ghana | Import austerity was imposed and external payments arrears cut. (references) | |
Ukraine | Arrears on energy payments to Russia are estimated at $1.4 billion. (references) | |
Human Rights | Moldova | The majority of the cases concerned the lack of social protection, and salary and pension arrears accumulated by the Government. (references) |
Moldova | The Constitution provides for an independent judiciary; however, many observers believe that arrears in salary payments make it difficult for judges to remain independent of official pressure and free from corruption. (references) | |
Central African Republic | The courts of justice and the juvenile court barely functioned during the year, and are unlikely to function properly due to inefficient administration, shortage of trained personnel, growing salary arrears, and a lack of material resources. (references) | |
Political Economy | PERU | Peru cleared its arrears with the Inter-American Development Bank in September 1991. (references) |
Belarus | In the state sector wages were lower than the national average and wage arrears were chronic. (references) | |
Ukraine | Wage arrears began to decrease in 2000, and by November had decreased by approximately 58 percent. (references) | |
Trade | Zimbabwe | Growing problems with arrears may change this, and has already affected facilities from the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation and the European Investment Bank. (references) |
Ukraine | Project objectives: Creation of centralized treasury system; developments of amendments necessary to the Budget Law to permit the imposition of expenditure control regulations; development of a new hierarchical chart of accounts; implementation of a transaction based Treasury Ledger System; implementation of effective Public Expenditure Control Regulations to manage the level and timing of expenditures and the extent of arrears. (references) | |
Women | Ukraine | Industries that are dominated by female workers also are those with the lowest relative wages and the ones that are most likely to be affected by wage arrears problems. (references) |
Worker Rights | Libya | Wages, particularly in the public sector, frequently are in arrears. (references) |
Ukraine | Official estimates placed arrears at 3.4 billion hryvnia as of October. (references) | |
Belarus | Major wage arrears continued to grow, especially in the agricultural sector. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Arrears" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.44% of the time. "Arrears" is used about 507 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 97.44% | 494 | 12,153 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.97% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.59% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 507 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "arrears": arrears in payment ♦ arrears in rent ♦ arrears of taxes ♦ be in arrears ♦ be in arrears with ♦ be in arrears with one's work ♦ in arrears ♦ interest on arrears ♦ payable in arrears ♦ tax arrears ♦ to loan into arrears. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mortgage arrears | 58 |
arrears | 36 |
arrears calculator | 19 |
child support arrears | 13 |
arrears mortgage uk | 12 |
rent arrears | 8 |
arrears mortgage problem | 6 |
arrears definition | 4 |
arrears child in support | 3 |
arrears in libor | 3 |
arrears off paying | 3 |
arrears ontario property sale tax | 2 |
california child support arrears | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "arrears"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | agterstand. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vonesë (delay, hold, hold up, lag, lateness, retardation, retardment, stunt, tardiness), punë e pakryer, prapambetje (backwardness, blizzard, chute, inferiority, lag), borxh (arrearage, borrowing, chalk, charge, debt, indebtedness, liability, owing, score). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متأخرات, ديون (liability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неизплатен дълг (delinquency), изоставяне (abandonment, dereliction, desertion, exposure, lag, neglect, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation), изостанала работа. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 款 (Arrear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | resty (backlog), nedoplatky. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skatterestance (arrears of taxes, delinquent tax, overdue tax, tax arrears, tax receivables), restance (arrears of account), morarente (default interest, interest on amounts paid, interest on arrears, late interest, moratorium interest, moratory interest), låne til lande i restance med rentebetalinger (to loan into arrears), ikke-indbetalt skat (arrears of taxes, tax arrears, tax receivables), forsinket udbytte (arrear of dividend, dividend paid in arrears), forfalden skat (delinquent tax, tax arrears), betalbar bagud (payable in arrears). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | achterstand. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | postresta pozicio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | maksamattomat korot (back-interest, rent in arrears). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | arriérages, arriérés (arrearage), arrérages (arrearage, arrearages), impayés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | efterstân. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rückstand (arrearage, backlock, backlog, delay, overdue, remainder, remains, residual, residue, residuum, rest, slippage), Rückstände (arrearages, backlog, backlogs, residuums), Schulden (debts, liabilities, owe, to owe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθυστερούμενα (backlog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lemaradás (arrear, fallback, lag, lagging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tunggakan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | arretrato (arrear, arrearage, back, backlock, backward, backwardly, behindhand, outstanding, residue, stuffy, under developed, underdeveloped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 溜まり (collected things, gathering place), 溜り (collected things, gathering place), 払い残り (balance due), 延滞金 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たまり (collected things, gathering place), はらいの"り (balance due), え"たいき". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 연체료 (Arrear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aneeaghyn (arrear), aneeaghan (arrear), feeaghyn (amortization, arrear, commitment, dues, expenses), cooyl-feeaghyn (arrear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arrearsay atraso (arrear, backwardness, delay, lag, lagging, lateness, retard, retardation, retardment), trabalho inacabado, obrigações (liabilities, sanctity, scrip), juros atrasados (arrear of interest, back-interest, rent in arrears), dívidas (arrearage, dues). (various references) restanţã (arrear, debt). (various references) отставание (backlog, lag), недоимки, задолженность (arrear, arrearage, backlog, indebtedness). (various references) fiach (good, valuable, value, worth; debt, worthy). (various references) dugovi (liabilities). (various references) atrasos (arrear, backlog, backlogs). (various references) utestående fordringar (back-interest), resterande ränteskulder (back-interest). (various references) เงินค้างชำระ (arrearage). (various references) kalan (balance, left behind, leftover, over, remainder, remaining, residual, residuary, residue, residuum, rest, rump, surviving, vestigial), borç (accommodation, arrear, care, debit, debt, encumbrance, liability, loan, obligation, red), bakiye (arrear, balance, effects, remainder, remaining balance, remnant, residuum, rest), ödemesi gecikmiş borçlar. (various references) відставання (arrearage, lag, lagging, leeway, retard, retardation), заборгованість (arrearage, backlog, score), борг (bad, chalk, debt). (various references) o+l-ddyled. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | la-ia. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ad. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | ariere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Arrears" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ararats, arears, areers, Aroeira, arrcars, arreans, arreer, arreers, arrees, arrers, irriacs, rariores. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "arrears" (pronounced eri"rz) |
| 4 | er i" r z | careers. |
| 3 | -i" r z | adheres, appears, auctioneers, bandoliers, beers, budgeteers, cashiers, cavaliers, cheers, clears, conventioneers, disappears, ears, electioneers, engineers, fears, financiers, frontiers, gears, gondoliers, hears, interferes, marketeers, mutineers, nears, peers, piers, pioneers, premieres, premiers, profiteers, queers, racketeers, reappears, rears, Sears, smears, sneers, souvenirs, spears, Speirs, spheres, steers, summiteers, veers, viers, volunteers, years. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-r-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arrear. | |
-2 letters: areas, arras, rarer, rares, raser, rears. | |
-3 letters: area, ares, arse, asea, ears, eras, errs, rare, rase, rear, sear, sera. | |
-4 letters: aas, are, ars, ear, era, err, ers, ras, res, sae, sea, ser. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, ar, as, er, es, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-r-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arrayers. | |
+2 letters: arrangers, barraters, narraters, rearwards. | |
+3 letters: arrearages, barrackers, barratries, rearranges, warranters. | |
+4 letters: arbitragers, cardsharper, paraphraser, prearranges, preparators, railroaders, remarriages. | |
+5 letters: arbitrageurs, arteriograms, ballcarriers, cardsharpers, harbormaster, overarranges, paragraphers, paraphrasers, paratroopers, premarriages, prerehearsal, racetrackers, radiotracers, restaurateur, trainbearers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 72 65 61 72 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. .-. . .- .-. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r r e a r s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 0072 0065 0061 0072 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35848471678485 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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